Word: catch
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...principle is this: every government, even that of the United States, lies always and about everything; when it can't lie on the main issue, it lies about the details. There are good lies and bad. Good ones are those that the [middle class] believes; excellent ones catch some of the carriage public; execrable ones are those nobody believes, and that only the most shameless ministries dare repeat. Everybody knows this. It is one of the first maxims of state, and must never escape your memory-or your lips...
...wage-stabilized, price-controlled, rationed public. But there is also a noticeable absence of vigor and purpose in the U.S. mobilization program, and in most of the men running it; there are no Charles E. Wilsons, "Bull" Jeffers, Bill Knudsens. These are the men who have been trying to catch up to galloping reality with a creeping mobilization...
Rachele Mussolini, 61, widow of the late Benito, finally got possession of her old dowry farm near Forlì, plus six other farms and two villas once owned by the dictator. One catch: the government slapped a $16,000 mortgage on the property owned by Il Duce, which represented, it said, wartime profits made during his regime...
...American take of the world's raw materials (about 50% of the total) might have to be cut. Last week at their Washington meetings Truman and Attlee laid the groundwork for an end to catch-as-catch-can buying (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Best guess was that a group similar to the Combined Raw Materials Board of World War II would be set up to make sure that the raw materials of the West went where they were most needed...
...Country is Renoir's bitter-sweet version (filmed in 1936) of a De Maupassant short story about a romantic brief encounter and its melancholy aftermath. The director puts plenty of feeling into his pastoral atmosphere, and his love scenes catch fire. However, the script is poorly constructed, much of the comedy seems forced, and the picture's mooning romanticism finally cloys...